Wesley J. Smith

I am sure PETA will claim this is a vindication, but instead the entire saga demonstrates that even the animal rights activists don’t really think that animals are the same as people. Readers of SHS will recall that two PETA workers picked up cats and dogs—some that were . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long worried about our celebrity-crazed culture and how it celebrates dysfunction and brings ruin to hyper-celebrities and average people alike. Rather than challenging us to greater levels of virtue, service and achievement—that is, to the greater exercise of human . . . . Continue Reading »

This is rich: Richard Dawkins—whose official website claims modestly to be “a clear thinking oasis”—made an incredible statement in the new movie Expelled, asserting that it is “an intriguing possibility” that space aliens “seeded” life here on Planet . . . . Continue Reading »

The Drudge Report has become America’s Front Page, to the point that even the New York Times and other newspapers try to get publicity for their stories by leaking them ahead of time to Drudge, a man the MSM once despised. Thus, when Drudge thinks a story is important, it comes to the . . . . Continue Reading »

After all the howling and moaning, after all of the demagoguery against President Bush’s ESC funding, after being warned darkly that the day of US dominance in science was over, it turns out that we lead the pack, after all. From an editorial in the Financial Times As the FDA hearings . . . . Continue Reading »

When Al Gore enters the regirement . . . . Continue Reading »

What greater proof that euthanasia and assisted suicide are an elite agenda than the millions that have been poured into the coffers of advocates by the likes of the George Soros and the Tides Foundations to groups such as Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society). Initiative 1000 in . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK claims to regulate things such as embryo selection and the creation of designer babies. Only they don’t. Oh, the Embryo Authority might huff and tut-tut against some form of eugenic manipulation, but then they always give in. And now it appears that deaf couples will be able to . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study of the Internet has revealed that a suicidal person has a greater chance of finding suicide promotion/facilitation information than prevention on-line. From the story:Researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Oxford, and Manchester replicated a typical Internet search by someone . . . . Continue Reading »

If this is true, why wasn’t it prosecuted? The former war crimes prosecutor at the Hague—who I believe botched the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic—is accusing ethnic Albanians of a Nazi-level crime against humanity; the killing of prisoners in order to sell their organs. From the . . . . Continue Reading »